The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-06-01
Pauper's Parsdise.-Free Ed"catioh
aud Free Beef.

Yhe working people and the property hold-
ers OF the city Of Columbia and the county oi
Riohland are annually made TO pay large
snms OF money to educate the children OF
vhite parents and negro parents, VINO are
either unable, unwilling, or too lazy, 10 earn
the money, and they have, we believe, sever
al hundred children of both races In the same
school In the city Of Columbia.
The poor people have done themselves d
GOOD service in taking, to educate thelr OVID
children, the money OF. their richer heigh-
.bors, and in appropriating share OF the net
earnings Of such citizens as are Wiling 10
work. and are trying to accumulate some
thing for rainy day.
But We believe, they have neglected mat
ter which is OF vital Importance 10 paupcrs-
a sufficient supply Of beef. These poor peo-
ple are entitled to living. NO man mas
r,aht to amass a fortune while the children Of
respectable white paupers are carrying a loS
in their stomachs, and while the faces OF lit
tie negroes grow dusty form the effects Oh
hunger.
The great need of Columbia Is free beer
market, and steps should be taken at once 70
establish this important institution.
We can use all the arguments In favor OF
this beef business that Is now applied TO the
schools. BY having an immense beci marx
ei for the benefit OF everybody In the city
the saving would be immense. Only one
superintendent or head butcher would he
necessary, and he could have the beeves Kill
ed In the most skillful manner, ut the least
EXPENSE, and the further preparation oi the
f,esh for distribution could be effected at the
lowest possible price. One immense Stall
with a single superintendent, and assistant
beef-choppers, would be much cheaper than
many smaller stalls with superintendent
for each.
ANY objection to making paupers realize
that they are mendicants, could be obvlated
by merely cutting of bone for those VINO
Furnish the feast. II they fail TO come for 1t
no blame could attach to those who COM
nailed their neighbors to furnish the money
With which to buy the beef. By giving the
rich an equal chance at the beef, the paupers
and their children could get beef In way
which would be fully as honorable and fully
as respectable as that which they have pro-
vided fer their rich neighbors
When Columbia gets free beef market as
an annex to her big free school poor folk and
negroes would have reason to be happy in
deed. The children could bring their beef
home from school without even the entra
trouble OF going to market for their rations.
Let the people agitate this matter. Some
body took the lead in the free school business,
and we see no reason why Columbia should
not lead Off in the free beef market The
people need not hesitate. Beef Is an impor-
tant, II not necessary, part of our food. The
public welfare demands that all people
should be we'll fed. No discrimination
should De made against poor folk, lazy folk,
and little negroes. No man should go hun
cry. Does not the Bible itself command us
to feed the hungry, to cloth the naked, and 10
give water 70 the thirsty? But where does 1t
command us to educate little negroes?